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    Simon Willison

    Simon Willison

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    Respected technical writer documenting day-to-day AI development, with a blog that is required reading for many AI engineers, and influential on MCP, tool use, prompting, coding agents, and practical evaluation.

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    Simon Willison is a software developer and co-creator of Django, working on AI and future of work.
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    Simon Willison is an independent software developer.
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    Simon Willison is a British programmer.
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    Simon Willison is a working software developer.
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    Simon Willison is a prolific independent technologist.
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    Simon Willison is a prominent technologist.
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    Simon Willison pushes the angle of practical, hands-on experience with AI and coding agents, often sharing his own projects and discoveries, such as his 150 'HTML tools' and his exploration of 'agentic loops'. Simon Willison's distinctive voice comes from his ability to balance technical depth with accessible storytelling, as seen in his post about Anthropic's infrastructure bugs. Simon Willison's focus on the intersection of AI and coding makes his content stand out from more generic discussions of AI's future.

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